Part real history and part love story, it’s also a deeply moral work, asking tough question about what matters most to us personally - and to the world.' Important. a deeply researched, almost unbearably tense, bruised-knuckle hybrid. Orringer’s true subject, the moral peril of being alive, is a grandly timeless - and timely - one.” “The novel seeks a kind of redress: restoring, to history’s vast panorama, a granular sense of how life on the borderlines of fascism feels…. Orringer's novel brings to light a truly inspiring episode in history.' Gorgeous…lush…meticulously researched…classic storytelling through a transgressive lens…The Flight Portfolio offers a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” New York Times Book Review, cover review

Her Marseille breathes as a city breathes.a thriller.” Her landscapes regularly rise to a Keatsian sensuousness. “Sympathetic and prodigiously ambitious…scrupulous. One of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and The Observer's most anticipated books of 2019 “Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down, The Flight Portfolio offers a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” - Entertainment Weekly His many clients included Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall, and the race against time to save them is a tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage. Instead, he stayed more than a year, working to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and arrange journeys across Spain and Portugal, where the refugees would embark for safer ports. In 1940, Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks. “Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be” (-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less), a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard-the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work of Europe’s great minds from the impending Holocaust

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